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Early Nomadic Hunters and Gatherers first unite and settle around the Nile. They used the river to help make farms and to catch fish
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By 3500 BCE the Sumerians had established 12 city states in the Fertile Cresent, with each one have 25,000-250,000 people in it.
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Sumerian were the first people to write stuff down.
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King Narmer and his bloodline rule throughout this era.
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Hammurabi made a law code for his people that consisted of over 282 sections. Each section went over the day to day life of people and went over the dos and the don'ts
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Hyksos took over Egypt for a little while. Their victory was most likely due to their advanced weapons.
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The Hittites started using iron for weapons which gave them a big advantage in war.
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The Egyptians didn't like the Hyksos rule so they overtook them using the same weapons the were defeated by.
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Ahmose rebuilt Egypt, he also made the name of pharaoh. He rebuilt Egypt's temples and abandoned places. He also reopened trade routes.
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The Hittites, with their massive army, took over the once great city-state of Babylon.
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She took over after her husband died and her son was too young. Her reign didn't end until her death
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When Akhenaton first took power he only wanted the sun dick god, Aton, to be worshiped.
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The great Pharoh's death Egypt weakened because of the Mediterranean sea raider.
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Ramses took over Egypt. He soon recaptured the lost territories and after a long battle made a treaty with a neighboring country. Which at the time had never been done before. He also had lots of statues, monuments, and tombs made for him and his family.
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Moses helps the Jews escape captivity.
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This idea consisted of an alphabet with 22 characters
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The first Olympics took place during this year in Olympia.
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The Assyrian Empire at this point in time was stretched from the Persian Gulf all the way to Egypt.
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The Tarquins family took over rule of Rome.
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The Chaldeans and Medesians formed an alliance to overthrow the Assyrians Empire and they did.
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The Chaldean rapidly took over more and more land, stretching as far Syria.
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A lot of plebeians (Funny name) joined together and went against their superiors to better their lives
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One of the finest Greek philosophers was born into a poor Athenian family
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Roman Laws were carved on bronze tablets.
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I found it interesting that Alexander conquered a bunch of things successfully but his men didn't want to go farther at one point. I also found it amazing that someone discovered the circumference of the Earth with the tools they had back then.
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the Hellenic Period was a time of greatness and a time of defeat. Many history altering events occurred during this time. Such as wars, economic growth and collapse, and the Hellenic Period gave us a refined democracy.
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The Punic Wars were a series of wars between Rome and Carthage. They were very costly and horrible overall.
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Tiberius wanted to help the smaller farmers by limiting the rich people in some way. If he hadn't been killed it probably would have worked and the people would have loved him. We took power in 133BC and soon died in a street fight.
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Many Generals started fighting over leadership. This took a toll on Rome but in the end Rome ended up with a pretty good leader.
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Julius Caesar was a very important man in his time. He helped expand Rome to new place and was loved by many people because of his military campaigns. Sadly, he only ruled for around 4 years.
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Octavian was Julius Caesar's grandnephew. He took power when Julius died and joined up into a triumvirate. He killed Julius Caesar's assassins and kept the Roman Empire an empire instead of a republic. He lead Rome, very well, for 40 years.
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This 200 year period signified Rome's peaceful period.
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At the time the Pantheon was an architectural wonder because of its curved roof. t was also made of concrete, a new building material at the time.
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Marcus was one of Romes first good emperors since Julius Caesar.
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During this time Rome had 28 emperors. Unfortunately, most of these emperors were killed shortly after taking power by the military. I believe this strained the political side of Rome.
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Because of the mass amounts of land Rome was capturing they were taking in a lot of people too. Because of this, laws had to be made for people who weren't citizens. Instead of this they just made every free male in Rome a citizen.
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Because of the constant attacks not as many things were being made. Because of this people weren't buying and prices start to soar as profit began to decrease. In order to stop the the Roman government minted more coins. This didn't work because the coins were made of cheaper materials, this only caused inflation. All of this resulted in food and man power shortages. There was also a smaller army because no one was getting paid.
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The Germanic and Huns invaded Rome and concurred it. This marked the end of Rome's Emperor status as its new leader wanted the title King.
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The overall spread of Indo-Europeans is fascinating. To learn they traveled so far and influenced so many languages is really a great feat for the time period.
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Sumerians first discover bronze by mixing copper and tin.